Zero Balancing

What is Zero Balancing?

Developed by Fritz Frederick Smith, MD in the early 1970s, Zero Balancing is a powerful body-mind therapy that uses skilled touch to address the relationships between energy and structures within the body. Following a protocol that typically lasts 30 – 45 minutes, the practitioner utilizes finger pressure and gentle traction on points of the body to create fulcrums, or points of balance, around which the body can relax and reorganize.

Zero Balancing is touch therapy that is based on the principle that we are both structure and energy – body/mind/spirit. ZB reduces pain, eliminates stress, improves mobility and mood and boosts your energy. ZB helps bring the bodymind into balance, and the results can be dramatic. Often 2 or 3 sessions lead to lasting results. Read recent research.

What can Zero Balancing do for you?

By improving inner balance, ZB can relieve pain and discomfort, boost energy and stamina, free stuck areas, erase stress, encourage insight, and quiet your mind. A ZB session gives you a direct experience of the wisdom of your body. Your healing goals for the session – physical, emotional, spiritual or a combination of the three – are the roadmap for your treatment.

 What is a Zero Balancing session like?

Sessions begin with a brief conversation about your current state of health and your priorities for positive change.  A ZB session is typically performed through clothing and includes a brief seated evaluation before you lie face up on the massage table. I assess your body for tension held in the bones, joints, and soft tissues. I then invite a release of these tensions by using gentle pressure and comfortable traction. People usually feel a state of deep peace, relaxation and heightened awareness.

ZB is not about treating certain symptoms, but more about treating the whole body, which in turn also treats symptoms. I highly recommend you try ZB for yourself and see just how it can help you in your overall quality of life.

How often should you receive Zero Balancing?

I encourage clients schedule three sessions to start, since each session builds upon the last. You can schedule sessions to support any goal or intention, such as to reduce back pain, help yourself to slow down or to better face specific life challenges, like a move or new job.

Contraindications:

There are few contraindications to Zero Balancing, however women in the first trimester of pregnancy, clients with acute illness, an active cancer diagnosis, or those recovering following fractures or surgery would be advised not to receive Zero Balancing at that time.